Events
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The Robotic Alchemist – Digital Chemistry
Speaker: Lee Cronin, Regius Professor - Chair of Chemistry, University of Glasgow Prof. Lee Cronin is a leading figure in the fields of chemistry, artificial intelligence, and robotics. His groundbreaking[...]
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Meteorites
ZoomSpeaker: Dr Helena Bates, Post Doctural Researcher Natural History Museum, London Dr Bates is working to unravel the history of an unusual group of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites that are believed[...]
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Real time bidding (how targeted ads work)
19th August @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm This month we look at the Real Time Bidding (RTB) system - this is the mechanism that provides targeted ads to your[...]
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Books and Literature Meeting …… What’s happened to Biggles?
Sorry to revive memories but Biggles flew through most of our childhoods and has now vanished almost completely. He starred in 99 novels but try and find them in a[...]
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HUMAN MIGRATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE 10am Wed 27 Aug
Over the past million years human migration has been largely driven by climate change. Since the industrial revolution green house has emissions have resulted in human generated climate change. Average[...]
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Volcanic Tsunamis
ZoomSpeaker: Dr Sebastian Watt, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, and Head of Education, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham Dr Watt’s research investigates the physical and[...]
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Wonders of Evolution
When, exactly 200 years ago in 1825, the young Charles Darwin arrived in Edinburgh to train to be a doctor, little could he have imagined that, just six years later,[...]
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Home networking
16th September @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm This month we look at home networking. We'll cover broadband, Wi-Fi, standards, speeds, firewalls, in-bound connections plus some additional options. As usual,[...]
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Current Affairs group: Open Forum
Since we last met in July, much has happened in the world, and yet, in many ways, little has changed. The conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine are no closer to[...]
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Books and Literature Meeting, September 23 at 7pm
First discussion involving poetry It is 60 years since the death of Sylvia Plath. Is she defined by her confessional verse or her eventual suicide?
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ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Global average temperatures are predicted to rise by 2C by 2050 and 2.6-2.9C by 2100. The impact includes increased heat deaths, changing weather patterns, and pressure on water supply and[...]
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Seeing to the Event Horizons of Supermassive Black Holes
Speaker: Dr. Dan Wilkins Kavli Institute, Stanford University On Monday, 29th September at 5:00 PM hear groundbreaking perspectives from a leading figure at the Kavli Institute. Recent breakthroughs near black[...]